Posts from: August 2014

Last week, authors Joseph D'Antoni and Stacia Misner released a new white paper that talks in detail about the use of Power BI in a hybrid environment taking advantage of the Data Management Gateway. In their words from the white paper summary: "Many...

The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony will be held tonight at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles. Like every other TV fan around the world, I'll be watching. That is why I decided to honor the men and women that create these amazing shows for...

Last week Microsoft News published an amazing story about one of our most interesting customers. Saudi Airlines , among the largest airlines in the Middle East, has implemented a business intelligence (BI) solution that includes Power BI for Office...

Update : The Data Refresh experience on Power BI has changed. For more details read this article and try the new Power BI today . In this Post Download the Data Management Gateway Extended data source support Step-by-step Power Query connection...

This blog post was authored by Tom Lawry, Director Worldwide Health, Microsoft With healthcare representing one of the fastest growing business segments for Business Intelligence, Power BI is finding its way in to healthcare organizations worldwide...

This blog post was authored by Marc Reguera, Finance Director, Microsoft After the success and interested generated by my first post, Visualizing the World Cup history with Excel and Power BI , I decided to update the model with data from the 2014...

There are two issues I’ve seen crop up with Power BI Admin Center. I talked about one of them a while ago regarding the “ You are not authorized ” error. I’ll talk about the other here. This is more just some confusion about how it works and how it is...

“Microsoft received high client feedback scores for its agile, business user self-service and advanced data visualization functionality. Clients also gave Microsoft BI a high score for its product vision”. This quote from the Forrester Wave...

Volcanoes are one of the most destructive forces of nature and always get a fair amount of attention from the general public and the scientific community. Volcanic activity generates thousands of data points. Remy Tom, one of our semi-finalist of the...